Washing-machine.



No. 644,874. Patented Mar. 6, I900. F. H. SEASHOLS.

WASHING MACHINE.

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WASHING MACHINE.

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FRANK H. SEASHOLS, OF ST..MARYS, OHIO, ASSIGNOR OF ONEHALF TO HENRY F. SCHRADER, OF'SAME PLACE.

WASHING MACHlNE.

SYECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 644,874, dated March 6, 1900..

Application filed September 13, 1899. Serial No. 730,333. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, FRANK I-I. SEASHOLS, acitizen of the United States, residing at St. Marys, in the county of Auglaize and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and usefulIrnprovements in Washing-Machines and I do declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in theart to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings,,and to the figures of reference marked-thereon, which form a part of this specification.

My invention relates to certain improvements in washing-machines.

The main or primary object of my invention is to so construct a washing-machine that the labor of properly manipulating the same will be reduced to a minimum and at the same time increase the efficiency of the machine.

A further object is to provide a machine combining strength, durability, and economy and also provide such machine with improved operating mechanism, whereby a great rubbing area or surface is obtained.

The foregoing and such other objects as may occur from the ensuing description are obtained by the improvements hereinafter more fully described, and particularly pointed out in the appended claims.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 illustrates a vertical longitudinal section of a washing-machine embodying my invention. Fig. 2 represents a transverse vertical view of the same. Fig. 3 is a side elevation of my improved washing-machine, showing the operating mechanism therefor; and Figs. 4, 5, and 6 represent details of the bearings for the journals of the upper rubber and of the journals connected to one end of the upper and lower rubbers.

As indicated in the drawings, 1 designates the tub or body portion of the machine, preferably semicylindrical in form, provided with a bottom .2, of sheet metalor other material, secured thereto in any suitable manner, and 3 is a tight or close cover hinged to the tub or body portion at the point 4:, said body portion being provided with suitable supporting legs or standards 5.

Grepresents the lower rubber,which is pivotally supported within the tub and is designed to receive and support the clothes to be washed. The upper or rubbing surface of said rubber is constructed in any suitable manner; but, as shown in the drawin s, it consists of a series of transverse bars of any desirable shape in cross-section, said bars being rigidly secured to the ends of the rubber. The said rubber 6 is provided centrally at or near its upper side edges with journals or trunnions 7 8, which latter rest and have bearing in the castings 9 9, fitted in the tub or body portion 1, whereby the rubber 6 is pivotally supported and suspended within the tub and is free to oscillate or reciprocate therein.

Secured to or integral with the journal or trunnion 7011 the outside of the tub is an arm 10, provided at one end thereof with a substantially T-shaped projection 10, which latter is removably secured to the outer end of a link or bar 10 said bar or link leading to and connected with the operating-lever, as more fully described hereinafter.

The upper rubber 11 is provided with a lower face or surface conforming in its contour with the upper face or surface of the lower rubber, and said lower face or surface of the upper rubber is formed by a series of transverse bars suitably secured to the ends of the rubber. The said rubber 11 is provided centrally at its upper surface or side edges with trunnions or journals 12 12, which rest and have bearing in castings 13 13, the latter being seated within a slot or recess in each side of the top or cover and firmly secured thereto. Each of the castings 13 18 is pro vided with perforated ears adapted to receive screws for securing said castings to the machine top or cover.

By reference to the detail views illustrated in Figs. 5 and 6 it will be seen that each castin g is centrally bored throughout its length to receive a coiled spring 14 each spring having bearing at its lower end on one of the aforesaid journals or trunnions, the upper end of each spring resting against the top or cover being solid.

at the point marked 15, as clearly shown in Fig. 2 of the drawings.

The casting 13 is centrally slotted through its inner and outer faces in the direction of its length, the slots terminating at the point marked 16, thereby constituting a bearing for the journal or trunnion 12, the slotted portion permitting the journal to extend entirely through the casting 13 to the outside of the machine, as shown in Fig. 2.

It will be observed that the casting 13 (clearly illustrated in Fig. 4) is slotted through its inner face only, the outer portion thereof The slot terminates with a portion 16, which serves as a bearing for the trunnion 12, the outer end of said journal being protected from lateral movement by the outer side wall of the casting.

The upper .rubber being pivotally supported and carried by the hinged cover of the machine, it will be seen that by raising and throwing back said cover the upper rubber will also be raised, so that the clothes to be washed may be readily placed within the lower rubber. When the cover is returned to its closed position, (should there be a considerable amount of clothes to be washed within the lower rubber,) the upper rubber will be forced upward against the coiled springs, whereby owing to the tension of said springs the upper rubber will be forced downward against the material to be operated thereon, thereby insuring the necessary rubbing contact therewith.

By boring out and slotting the castings 13 13 I form flanges within said castings which constitute a guideway for the journals or trunnions 12 12, each of which is provided with a spherical enlargement 17 17, which travel in said guideway. The journal 12 is provided at its outer end with an arm 18, having at or near its upper end a T-shaped projection for removably connecting said arm with one end of a link or bar 19, the other end of said link or bar being pivotally secured to an operating bar or lever 20. The operating bar or lever 20 is pivotally secured to a pin 21, projectinglaterally from the body of the machine at one side and near one end thereof and secured thereto. Said bar or lever 20 is also provided with a substantially T- shaped projection 22, to which is pivotally and removably connected one end of each of the operating bars or links, the other end of each of said links or bars being removably secured to the arms 10 and 18, respectively, and the bar or lever 20 is provided with a suitable handle 23. For the purpose of draining the water from the tub I provide the same with an outlet 24 at or near the bottom thereof, as shown clearly in Fig. 3.

The normal position of the operating mechanism hereinbefore referred to is shown by full lines in Fig. 3, While the positions assumed by said mechanism when the operating bar or lever reaches its extreme forward and rearward positions is shown by dotted lines in said figure, the positions assumed by the upper and lower rubbers under like conditions being clearly shown in Fig. 2.

It will be readily perceived that owing to my improved operating mechanism, connected, as shown, with the end of each journalarm, I am enabled to procure an extremelylarge sweep of the rubbing-surfaces with respect to each other regardless to the amount of material to be operated upon and with a minimum amount of labor expended in manipulating said mechanism.

Having thus described my invention, what I desire to claim and secure by Letters Patent- 1s 1. A washing-machine,comprising the body portion, a close top or cover, upper and lower rubbers,journals for pivotally supporting said rubbers, castings in the cover, each of said castings being provided with a central bore and flanges constituting a guideway for the journals of the upper rubber, arms outside of the machine integral with the journals of the upper and lower rubbers to which are removably connected links or bars, and an operating-lever pivoted at one side of the machine and provided with a projection to which is removably connected one end of said links or bars.

2. 'Awashing-machine,comprising thebody portion, a closed top or cover, upper and lower rubbers,journals for pivotallysupportingsaid rubbers, one journal on the upper rubber and one journal on the lower rubber having a spherical enlargement and projecting through one side of the machine, castings secured in the cover, each of said castings being provided with a central bore and flanges constituting a guideway for thejournals of the upper rubber, arms outside of the machine integral with one of the journals of both the upper and lower rubbers to which arms are removably connected links or bars, and an operating-lever, pivoted at one side of the machine and provided with a T-shaped projection intermediate of its length to which is connected one end of each of the said links or bars.

In testimony whereof I aflix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

FRANK I'I. SEASHOLS.

Witnesses:

FRANK D. BLAOKISTONE, H. A. CARTY. 

